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Vishnu Ks
January 24, 2017
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What I learned from contributing to open source
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Transcript
@hackerkid Vishnu Ks W-I-L-F-C-T-O-S GeekHaven Quick Talks Powered with ❤
by GitHub
@hackerkid Zulip GitHub Campus Experts
@hackerkid Phase #1
@hackerkid #Try To Commit Every Day
@hackerkid My GitHub In 2014
@hackerkid My GitHub In 2015
@hackerkid Put all your code On GitHub
@hackerkid Put all your code on github • Topcoder/Codeforces problems
you solved • Semester projects • Personal projects • List of books you read • dotfiles • research paper
@hackerkid Work On A Side Project
@hackerkid Phase 2
@hackerkid
@hackerkid If you are thinking about contributing, you are good
enough. Challenge yourself and fight your impostor syndrome
@hackerkid
@hackerkid
@hackerkid
@hackerkid
@hackerkid Most projects have specific label for issues that are
suited for beginners. Zulip has bit-size issues.
@hackerkid • http://up-for-grabs.net • http://issuehub.io • http://www.firsttimersonly.com • http://yourfirstpr.github.io •
https://github.com/MunGell/awesome-for-beginners • http://docsdoctor.org • http://PullRequestRoulette.com • http://24pullrequests.com Issues to Get Started for Beginners
@hackerkid Setting Up The Development Environment Is The Hard Part
Most of The Time
@hackerkid • Choose An Issue and Spend One or Two
Day on It. • Don’t give up. • Life is much simpler after you solve complete first issue.
@hackerkid
@hackerkid One does not try to read the entire code
base
@hackerkid The number of lines in Zulip is 4,85,395
@hackerkid grep -rnw “key word” .
@hackerkid Don’t know what a line of code does? >
git log -S “line of code”
@hackerkid Learn from Git History of a File
@hackerkid
@hackerkid
@hackerkid
@hackerkid Brandon Keepers, GitHub
@hackerkid
@hackerkid Open Source is the ultimate referral Chris Dibona, Google
@hackerkid
@hackerkid
@hackerkid So, which project are you going to contribute to?
@hackerkid Special Thanks To @bkeepers and @joenash GitHub
@hackerkid Slide On https://github.com/hackerkid/talks